Monday, March 10, 2014

Remove Toolbar.blinkx.com Redirect Virus




Is Toolbar.blinkx.com a virus?

Toolbar.blinkx.com is another kind of browser hijacker virus, which is able to break into your machine without making any noise, so you are unable to notice when it gets inside your system. Mostly, this virus is likely to disguise itself as a useful website that provides you with many quick entrances. Thus, innocent PC users may think that it is pretty reliable and may download the programs that it recommends you, such as its malicious toolbar. However, sooner or later, they will realize that this thinking is totally wrong.

Generally speaking, toolbar.blinkx.com is often bundled with some free programs, so you may install it onto the system mistakenly. Once toolbar.blinkx.com is installed, it affects all browsers that you have installed on the machine, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome. The search engine will be infected by its malicious codes and perform poorly. For example, when you look for some information with the reputable search engine, you just find that the search results are redirected to some other websites. No matter which search result you are clicking, the result is the same. Meanwhile, if you surf online, you will be annoyed by tons of ads as well. In order to make the search engine perform correctly, you should get rid of toolbar.blinkx.com immediately.



How to Remove Toolbar.blinkx.com virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Toolbar.blinkx.com Hijacker virus, you can go through the listed removal steps CAREFULLY.

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Toolbar.blinkx.com Hijacker redirect problem

2. After that, for IE users, you need to go to "Manage Add-ons" to uninstall bad add-ons if there is any.

For Chrome users, you need to open "Settings" and delete Toolbar.blinkx.com Hijacker from your start page and search engine

For Firefox users, you can go to "Add-ons" and remove its malicious toolbars and revert your default start page and new tab page.


3. There are many things to do if you want to manually get rid of Toolbar.blinkx.com Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor "AutoRun" = "\.exe"


4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.

%CommonAppData%\.
%LocalAppData%\KB8456137\KB8456137.exe


Be known that Toolbar.blinkx.com Hijacker is very cunning and can change its file locations anytime. So please CAREFULLY edit your registry and delete its files.


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